c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters." — Ethan Hawke
"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains." — Gregory Bateson
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology." — Bruce Schneier
"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure." — John Locke
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'" — Jeff Foxworthy
"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." — H. G. Wells
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke." — Scott Thompson
"At the end of the day, my hope is that when the new Medicare- Prescription Drug Law gets up and fully running a lot more seniors will pay a whole lot less than they do today for their much-needed medications." — Dennis Hastert
"You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed." — Nick Clegg
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." — Honore de Balzac
"I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time." — Alton Brown
"I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams." — Mike Farrell
"I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food." — Michael Stipe
"The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'" — Orison Swett Marden
"Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society." — Walter Gropius
"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning." — Isaac Asimov
"When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits." — Max Greenfield
"People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve." — Jennifer Aniston
"I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way." — Ani DiFranco
"It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it." — Voltaire
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men." — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit." — Dakota Fanning
"My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids." — Joel Osteen
"The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning." — Anne Tyler
"On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity." — Mark Udall
"So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing." — Gavin DeGraw
"Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do." — Bruce Jenner
"Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show." — Mitch Hedberg
"You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading." — Johnny Depp
"Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection." — James McGreevey
"I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded." — Mark Zuckerberg
"You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know." — Jim Bakker
"A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone." — Leonard Peltier
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"My mother was a P.E. teacher, and she was kind of a fanatic about fitness and nutrition growing up, so it was ingrained in me at a young age. As I get older, I'm finding out it's not about getting all buffed up and looking good. It's more about staying healthy and flexible." — Josh Duhamel
"I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions." — Avril Lavigne
"God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell." — Adam Sandler
"Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape." — Preet Bharara
"I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that." — Maggie Q
"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death." — Angela Davis
"My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'" — Sean Parker
"Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust." — Chuck Colson
"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little." — Samuel Johnson
"When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom." — Trisha Yearwood
"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." — Yogi Berra
"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization." — Lytton Strachey
"We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that." — Mike Wallace
"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this." — Miguel de Cervantes
"If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health." — Carol Alt
"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength." — Charles Stanley
"I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked." — Eminem
"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time." — George W. Bush
"When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth." — Jane Goodall
"The only thing I do on a computer is play Texas Hold 'Em, really. Obviously my cell phone is a computer. My car is a computer. I'm on computers every day without actively seeking them out." — John Hawkes
"The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable." — Emma Thompson
"Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it." — Florence King
"He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of." — Mae West
"When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy." — Alexei Navalny
"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently." — Mark Zuckerberg
"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience." — J. K. Rowling
"If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general in particular in the field of human intelligence." — Paul Bremer
"One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?" — Francis Cabot Lowell
"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of." — Anita Brookner
"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion." — Barbra Streisand
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us." — P. J. O'Rourke
"Patience was not my strong point." — Lauren Bacall
"In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well." — Vince McMahon
"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker." — Robert Wise
"Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less." — Dianne Feinstein
"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous." — Edmund Burke
"Things are beautiful if you love them." — Jean Anouilh
"The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman." — Alexander Smith
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man." — Bruno Rossi
"I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that." — Colin Hanks
"One man cannot practice many arts with success." — Plato
"Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape." — Shania Twain
"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress." — Benazir Bhutto
"But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives." — Jeb Bush
"And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly." — John Abizaid
"Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!" — Christopher Parker
"I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!" — LeBron James
"I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12." — Alexander McQueen
"America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances." — Meryl Streep
"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect." — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever." — Zachary Levi
"Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means." — Henny Youngman
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work." — Ernest Hemingway
"Country music is three chords and the truth." — Harlan Howard
"Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition." — Isaac Asimov
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present." — Lao Tzu
"Politics is not about money." — Paul Wellstone
"The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency." — Bobby Ray Inman
"People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal." — Herbert Spencer
"I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism." — Marco Rubio
"I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element." — Lady Gaga
"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent." — David Herbert Lawrence
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly." — Francis Bacon
"I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed." — Ben Stein
"A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils." — Margaret Cavendish
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything." — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad." — Amber Tamblyn
"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others." — Dalai Lama
"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend." — Akhenaton
"Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar." — Bethenny Frankel
"Real firmness is good for anything strut is good for nothing." — Alexander Hamilton
"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor." — Eleanor Roosevelt
"There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa." — Carol Alt
"All is connected... no one thing can change by itself." — Paul Hawken
"Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind." — James M. Baldwin
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions." — Helmut Jahn
"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next." — Matthew Arnold
"What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism." — Rand Paul
"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." — Mark Twain
"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." — Mike Ditka
"We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day." — Jim Rohn
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." — W. H. Auden
"We are always the same age inside." — Gertrude Stein
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award." — Lester B. Pearson
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." — Anne Lamott
"If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad." — Chris Robinson
"Baseball was the darling of all sports back then." — Marion Motley
"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand." — Neil Armstrong
"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never." — Hermann Hesse
"In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings." — Delia Ephron
"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex." — Katharine Hepburn
"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." — Marcus Aurelius
"We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A group of us got together over at Kelsey's and just read through some plays just for the fun of it. That may not be everyone's idea of a good time, but we had a good time." — David Hyde Pierce
"You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance." — Don Shula
"I cured with the power that came through me." — Black Elk
"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened." — Fidel Castro
"As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience." — Jon Meacham
"We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now." — Radha Mitchell
"Family makes a house a home." — Jennifer Hudson
"Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up." — Bette Davis
"The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy." — Michael Porter
"There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too." — Peter Shilton
"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised." — Colin Firth
"Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve." — Tammy Baldwin
"My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it." — Emmanuelle Chriqui
"But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers." — Armistead Maupin
"There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect." — Auguste Rodin
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life." — Abraham Maslow
"People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can." — Jennifer Weiner
"I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent." — Kat Dennings
"Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws." — Jim Morrison
"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them." — Franz Marc
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." — Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices." — Barbara Ehrenreich
"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame." — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible." — Samuel Johnson
"I always told my dad I'd play professional football." — Anthony Doerr
"Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart." — Steven Van Zandt
"Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day." — Armstrong Williams
"The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!" — Rupert Everett
"People are smarter than you might think." — John Astin
"Women love a self-confident bald man." — Larry David
"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." — Leo Buscaglia
"For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that." — Sophocles
"The qualities I am looking for in Miss Right are intelligence and humour." — Brendan Coyle
"The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes." — Alfred Marshall
"There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy." — Deborah Norville
"All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports." — John Hodgman
"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." — Shana Alexander
"I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude." — Yani Tseng
"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time." — William Hurt
"You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone." — Jessica Savitch
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this." — A. C. Benson
"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me." — J. K. Rowling
"I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive." — Jerry Seinfeld
"One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school." — Lukas Haas
"What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up." — Alanis Morissette
"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos." — Jill Clayburgh
"The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers." — Kevin Smith
"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war." — Napoleon Bonaparte
"The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital." — Mark Hyman
"It's not cool to be an alcoholic." — Chester Bennington
"I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters." — Jennifer Garner
"To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world." — Barbara Boxer
"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended." — Barack Obama
"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did." — Terry Prachett
"The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature." — Thorstein Veblen
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." — Khalil Gibran
"I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world." — Tadao Ando
"Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." — Will Cuppy
"I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me." — Gina Carano
"Always do your best." — Miguel Angel Ruiz
"The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people." — James Bovard
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration." — Irving Babbitt
"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom." — Khalil Gibran
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another." — George Eliot
"Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can." — Mindy Kaling
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." — James A. Baldwin
"Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something." — Moon Unit Zappa
"Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with." — Andrew Stanton
"There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in." — Alanis Morissette
"Politics is the science of urgencies." — Theodore Parker
"To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served." — Solomon Ortiz
"If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague." — Wilhelm Keitel
"And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree." — Donald Norman
"Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty." — Harry Vardon
"As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say." — Tom Udall
"The essence of good government is trust." — Kathleen Sebelius
"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls." — Edmund Burke
"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success." — Sting
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress." — Harriet Ann Jacobs
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine." — Rainn Wilson
"In a way song writing can almost be detrimental, because suddenly you find an outlet that is a kind of cheating. You don't need to have direct communication. You can say, 'I can't describe it to you, but I will record it and send it to you.'" — James Blunt
"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home." — Cathy Guisewite
"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are." — Muhammad Ali
"I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever." — Benicio Del Toro
"I always wanted to be a father. I have a beautiful relationship with my dad and beautiful memories. I always knew I was going to have a family." — Ricky Martin
"To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise." — Jerry O'Connell
"But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage." — Jack Kingston
"You reach a point where you don't work for money." — Walt Disney
"I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust." — Christopher Gadsden
"It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society." — Murray Rothbard
"Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society." — John Ralston Saul
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it." — Henry Adams
"There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus." — Blaise Pascal
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself." — Jessamyn West
"What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization." — Bertolt Brecht
"It is better to be alone than in bad company." — George Washington
"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time." — Johann Kaspar Lavater
"So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want." — James Dyson
"Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible." — Richard J. Needham
"When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching." — Robert Bly
"I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg." — Jonah Hill
"Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining." — Desmond Tutu
"In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature." — Taylor Swift
"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
"My family brought me up to be very respectful of people." — Emma Bunton
"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success." — Paulo Coelho
"There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about." — Ian Rush
"We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society." — Bryan Cranston
"My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger." — Ben Barnes
"My hero's, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they can't take that from me." — Derek Jeter
"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." — Richard Bach
"What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself." — Malcolm Mclaren
"These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users." — Mike Fitzpatrick
"I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life." — Jennifer Lopez
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." — Albert Einstein
"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home." — Quincy Jones
"I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things." — Peter Singer
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best." — Voltaire
"God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her." — Magic Johnson
"For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places." — Elizabeth Kostova
"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?" — William Blake
"That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did." — Randy West
"So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." — Will Rogers
"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!" — Woody Allen
"War is sweet to those who have not experienced it." — Desiderius Erasmus
"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace." — George W. Bush
"I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn." — Jaime King
"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then." — Gordon Getty
"Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom." — Alan Dershowitz
"PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect." — Ingrid Newkirk
"Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind." — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
"Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done." — Jacques Barzun
"It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything." — Julie Walters
"One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history." — Peace Pilgrim
"He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows." — Jeremy Taylor
"An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life." — Jose Marti
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light every eye, looking on, finds its own." — Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully." — Eric Hoffer
"The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see." — Carly Fiorina
"Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it." — Curt Schilling
"Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives." — Tony Campolo
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom." — Bertrand Russell
"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form." — Andre Maurois
"I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel." — Levon Helm
"Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff." — John Grisham
"I hope my own children never have to fight a war." — George H. W. Bush
"Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA." — Andrew Mason
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job." — Antonio Tabucchi
"Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see the alleged billions watching at home either, so the degree to which you are intimidated is quite low." — Rowan Atkinson
"Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide." — Tecumseh
"Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty." — Chris Christie
"And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it." — Matt Stone
"I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads." — James Caan
"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there." — Robert Browning
"Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist." — Marquis de Sade
"I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life." — Mike Mills
"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali." — Salvador Dali
"I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years." — Vicente Fox
"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem." — Gwyneth Paltrow
"I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength." — Sandra Lee
"The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world." — Georges Simenon
"I think films about men are often about characters who don't want to express their feelings. You're supposed to kind of admire them for not expressing their feelings. And I feel that's a bit dull. Women's stories often have stronger emotional content, which I enjoy doing. What I really love doing is mixing that with humor." — Nigel Cole
"No man was ever wise by chance." — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids." — Steve Jobs
"I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things." — Paul Westerberg
"The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching." — Joseph Smith, Jr.
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it." — Niels Bohr
"Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning." — Vera Farmiga
"Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria." — Robert McFarlane